Most Americans understand that in a hostile world, governments need to engage in some snooping to monitor and thwart our enemies. We know they need to crack codes and keep secrets. In exchange for handing the government that extraordinary power, we expect it to be exercised with prudence within a rubric of restraints on abuse.

After a marathon that danced with joy and ended in horror, surely we see what sports can mean to a city. By now, after pregame tributes marked by an anthem singer's fist pumps and the most appropriate f-bomb in New England history, yes, we see how...

On Wednesday, April 24, at 8pm ET, NBC's Dateline will devote a full hour called “Terror in Boston: The Hunt for Answers” to the latest in the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings of April 15, 2013. According to a release, Dateline...

The circling helicopters haven’t found him. Neither have the tactical squads in the armored vehicles that have been rumbling up and down the rural mountain roads of eastern Pennsylvania.
Fourteen days into the search for Eric Frein, hundreds of law enforcement officers have yet to capture the 31-year-old survivalist suspected of killing one Pennsylvania state trooper and critically wounding another.
The state and federal dragnet cast over the Pocono Mountains has spooked and frustrated area...

Two friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of bombing the finish line area of the Boston Marathon, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of hindering the investigation into the attack.
Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, both Kazakhstan nationals, were charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstructing justice, U.S. Atty. Carmen Ortiz in Boston announced on Thursday.
The men were originally charged in a criminal complaint on May 1.
PHOTOS: Manhunt for bombing suspects
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Onto the Scranton, Pa., stage the vice president came on Friday, in vintage form. He pumped his fist. He pointed at friends arrayed there, in his hometown. He bellowed a favorite insult: “Malarkey!” He smiled the broad Irish smile, undimmed.
The only reference to the terror of the week—camping out with his adult son at a cancer center in Texas—came when he told the crowd that “things are good at home in Delaware.”
“My son Beau’s fine; sends his love.&...

Sean Collier Photos

It was an emotional start to the game for both the
Red Sox and Royals, as a pregame ceremony honored the victims of Monday's bombings in Boston, along with the first responders who helped treat the victims and law enforcement who captured the suspects.
And it was a dramatic ending, as Daniel Nava's two-out, three-run home run in the eighth inning gave the Red Sox a 4-3 victory.
The Red Sox players took the field at Fenway Park with the word "Boston" stitched across their jerseys instead of the...

Our nation has laid to rest another hero. Officer Sean Collier, police officer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was tragically killed in the events that led to the capture of the Boston Marathon bombers ("Slain MIT police officer remembered," April 25).
At the young age of 27, Officer Collier had always wanted to be a police officer and chose to do so protecting the campus of MIT. At the Maryland Classified Employees Association, Inc., we have the honor of representing university police...

Richard “Dic” Donohue Jr. came to the edge of death after a bullet to his right thigh severed his femoral vein and artery.
The 33-year-old Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officer from Woburn, Mass., lost his entire blood supply after he was hurt during the pursuit of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects in an early morning manhunt on April 19.
At one point, his heart stopped.
But Donohue was resuscitated, and according to a statement Wednesday, he's taking recovery in stride....